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By JACK WEATHERLY Madison County Circuit Court Judge Steve Ratcliff ruled in favor of the city of Ridgeland in its approval of a site for a gas station for a proposed Costco Whole store. Ratcliff, who ruled from the bench Feb. 7 for the city, signed the order on Monday. With that, homeowners can now appeal to the state Supreme ...

COLUMBUS — Sanders Oil Company has been sold to Midstates Petroleum Company in Vernon, Ala. The sale includes Sanders Oil’s 14 gasoline stations. Terms of the sale were not made public. Sanders Oil vice president Will Sanders tells The Commercial Dispatch that the sale was finalized Monday. The sale includes Sanders’ six consignment stores and hundreds of commercial accounts. Sanders ...

JACKSON — Business groups still aren’t ready to raise Mississippi’s taxes to repair and build highways and bridges. In August, Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Willie Simmons, D-Cleveland, proposed a $700 million menu of taxes and asked other members of a study committee examining road needs to offer their own alternative revenue and spending plans. Highway officials say the state needs ...

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has dismissed claims by BP fuel stations and convenience stores that the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico diminished the value of the oil giant’s brand and cost them business. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s ruling says the dealers’ claims against BP PLC aren’t viable under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, ...

NATCHEZ and MADISON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says two gas station owners were arrested yesterday and charged with price gouging during a state of emergency that’s in place because of Tropical Storm Isaac. Hood says 50-year-old Rajinder Singh of Madison was arrested at his Fuel Time gas station in Jackson. He also says 51-year-old Kuldip Singh of Natchez ...